Mr. Bush's advisers argued that Mr. Ashcroft would be a safe choice because senators grant courtesy to one of their own and because Mr. Ashcroft had been gracious when he conceded defeat in November to Jean Carnahan, the widow of his Senate opponent.
When I asked Warner's aides for permission to attend some of his policy briefings in January, word came back that the outside experts who had been asked to make presentations, some of whom worked in the Clinton administration, balked because they were afraid the Clinton camp would find out that they were granting courtesies to another candidate.
If Michael Phelps wants to crash at a Holiday Inn, he should be granted that courtesy.
"We believe the state has continued to own the land, granted a courtesy to the yacht clubs, and has been trying to reclaim the land for at least 10 years," said Paul Larrabee, a spokesman for Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
It came only moments after the president had granted a courtesy call in the Oval Office to Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and fiery progressive running against Clinton who has yet to formally suspend his campaign.
The same businessman lathered Mr. Bruno with campaign contributions, and was associated with a firm that got $500,000 in state grants, courtesy of Mr. Bruno.
The Senate did not even grant the courtesy of a committee hearing.
Most of the witnesses being interviewed by the Senate and House committees investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election have been granted a remarkable courtesy.
At the close of his evidence, the judge qualified the normal courtesy granted to witnesses, saying: "For obvious reasons I am not going to say you are free to go".
Various state and federal courts denied several of Williams's last-minute appeals Thursday, and Arkansas held off on starting the execution until the U.S. Supreme Court had officially denied his petitions, a courtesy granted by many states in death penalty cases.
